My 5-year-old pen pal says (via her mother): Derek’s a nice person. He doesn’t care how I spell. He did at first but then I had to teach him how not to care.
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Derek Bridges lives in New Orleans, trading in words and pictures. A carpetbagger of long standing, he grew up in the top right corner of IL and later went to college in the middle cornfield part. He has also lived in MS and FL, for educational purposes only, and was diasporized for a time in TX.
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If I were to sell any prints or images of costumed Mardi Gras Indians, I’d certainly split any profit with the Indians. However, I don’t get the impression most photographers work that way. Generally, though, everything I shoot is available through a Creative Commons license,…
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My new pen pal (via email) is a 5 year old girl living in Richmond, VA named Sophia. She is the daughter of a couple friends of ours. G recently visited them when she picked up our new puppy, Cairo, and Sophia was smitten by…
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They come from the other side of St. Charles Avenue.
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I found that blog I recently mentioned I couldn’t find. It’s Michael David Murphy’s Unphotographable: a text account, where he posts text descriptions of photos he did not take. I would like to kill Mr. Murphy to steal his idea, but that should not be…
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A commenter at the G Bitch Spot recently said, I can’t help but wonder why the term ‘carpetbagger’ is so pervasive – and (the real issue) why so many New Orleanians seem border-line condescending to those who didn’t grow up here. Leaving aside the “carpetbagger”…
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From Cindy Chang’s story in today’s Times-Pic: Bob Dabney, a spokesman for [Stewart] Juneau, said: “I can confirm that LTPG and the city are in ongoing negotiations over the proposal submitted in response to the RFP. We’re not ready to concede that there are material…
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Grati Baroni being interviewed by Andre Gervais (translated by Sarah Skinner Gilborne): And I remember that [Marcel Duchamp] told me that one day when he was forty or forty-one, when he was in New York and very much in love, he was in front of…
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I guess Vancouver Canuck Mikael Samuelsson badly wanted to be on the Swedish Olympic hockey team. When he found out he didn’t make the team, he said: Probably going to get in trouble for this, but they can go (expletive deleted) themselves.
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There are few writers Martin Amis admires as much as Vladimir Nabokov, which makes this all the more insightful (from guardian.co.uk): The word we want is not the legalistic “paedophilia”, which in any case deceitfully translates as “fondness for children”. The word we want is…